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Powell Family Foundation Nancy
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| CAMP SOLOMON SCHECHTER | $30,000 |
| MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE | $25,000 |
| HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY | $19,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS | $15,000 |
| TACOMA RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC | $15,000 |
| SOS OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| TALES OF THE ALCHEMYSTS THEATRE | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING | $10,000 |
| THE DEFIANT REQUIEM FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MOMUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE7× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +61%
- CWCHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY7× · 2019–2025 · $156k · revenue +4%
- CSCamp Solomon Schechter5× · 2021–2025 · $147k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- MFMULTICARE FOUNDATIONSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +163%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $21k
- WTWASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTIONone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +49%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE ↗
- Who funds CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Camp Solomon Schechter ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FORUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Defiant Requiem Foundation ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds CSP North America Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds TACOMA UJAJEWISH COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division · The Bamford Foundation · June & Julian Foss Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Medina Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Allison Foundation Trust Tai · Heidner Marco J Char Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Powell Family Foundation Nancy funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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